Lucky Star (Italian band)

Lucky Star was an Italian girl group that were created on the talent show Superstar Tour in 2003 (the second edition of Popstars in Italy).

Music career

The group consisted of three young girls: Laura Pisu, Emma Marrone and Colomba Pane. Their debut single "Stile" was presented at Italian Music Awards (IMA), the single was released on 19 December 2003 through Universal Music and reached the #24 in the Italian Singles Chart. After the first single the girls began recording their debut album. During the recording of the album, many misunderstandings and disagreements between the girls have began. Consequently, the group was dropped in 2004 and the album was cancelled.

In 2005 the girls have announced officially a surprising reunion of the group, saying they are now working on a total different project and on a new kind of music and they announced the upcoming release of their very first album through Universal Music. The group has recorded the soundtrack of the cartoon W.I.T.C.H, which aired on Italia 1 with great success. In May 2006 was finally released their debut album LS3, an English language album with 90s dance influence. The album consists of the W.I.T.C.H soundtrack, six dance stracks sung together, one solo song for each girl and a cover of Ace of Base's All That She Wants. The album has been a commercial failure due to poor promotion. The release of "Day To Come" as promotional single was then cancelled. The group broke up after few months after the album release.

After the official break-up, Emma Marrone recorded an album with the rock group Mjur, released through Dracma Records in 2008. In 2009 Marrone took part of the talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi which relaunched her music career. Emma won the competition and in March 2010 Emma's debut solo EP Oltre with the first single "Calore" was released. The single and EP were both #1 in Italian Charts. Emma is nowadays a notable solo artist in Italy and also internationally. She took part twice at the Sanremo Music Festival, in 2011 along with Modà and in 2012, where she won the festival with the song Non è l'inferno. She also represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song La mia città

Laura Pisu in 2010 appeared in Ligabue's music video for the single "Un Colpo All'Anima". She is notable in Sardinia to have been a vocalist in many discos, performing with the stage name of Velenia or Dea. She also covered many songs, posting them in the web.

Discography

• 2003 – Stile (Debut Single – #24 Italy)
• 2006 – LS3 (Debut Album)